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> Yes, some make use of Thread-id a bit better than other

Traditional email threading was based on the contents of the In-Reply-To and References headers. The algorithm is described in RFC 5256 for the IMAP SORT and THREAD extensions[1] and used in several mail user agents[2].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5256#ref-THREADING

[2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html




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